TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

High water to-day, 11.59 a.m. Sunset, 7.3; sunrise to-morrow, 5.6. Shanghai has fallen to the Japanese. London wool sales open on November lts. Russia angered by anti-Communist pact. British peer urges boycott of Japan by all nations. .Metal prices show partial recovery on London market. Duke and Duchess of Windsor may yet visit l .S.A. W'anganella to sail for Sydney at 10 p.m. to-morrow. Aorangi due at 6 p.m. on Sunday from Vancouver. Otago criticises New Zealand Kugby inquiry proposals. Five Jews shot while going to work outside .Jerusalem. Napier Star due from Liverpool on Saturday morning. Matua left for the Islands shortly after .3 p.m. yesterday. Slow progress made by Parliament on Departmental estimates. Oldest Xorthcote resident celebrates ninety-seventh birthday. London butter market easier; Xew Zealand now 145/ per cwt. Yacht Xgataki left Tonga on Saturday for Auckland, via Vavau. Strickland to meet Delaney in Kmpire boxing elimination bout. | Oisborne plumber fails in petition for divorce; wife succeeds on answer. Middlesex to leave for Wellington tonight to continue loading for London. Auckland Diocesan Churchmen's Association denounces practice of criminal abortion. Rates of pay in permanent defence forces forms subject of Parliamentary discussion. Mariposa due from Sydney on Monday, and will sail at 5 p.m. for San Francisco. Armistice Day to-morrow; Cenotaph ceremony planned, two minutes' silence to be observed. Government to investigate possibilities of Wellington as base for overseas flying boat services. Rumours of serious mechanical faults in cruiser Leander contradicted by Minister of Defence. Story of Japan's war activities told by Auckland insurance manager who returned from East. Dog ranger claiming £750 damages from motorist for injuries received when knocked off his bicycle. General regrading of Public Service practically completed, according to report before House of Representatives. Government's desire for more wholesome public outlook in facing abortion problem stressed by Minister of Health. I nions want Minister of Labour to issue general order making wage rates fixed by Court retrospective to time of Conciliation Council hearing. Tf conditions of mines in Hauraki district were made more difficult than at present, death knell of industry would be sounded, stated mine-owner's representative in Arbitration Court to-day. Thirty industrial disputes referred back to Conciliation Council since Arbitration Court made standard wage pronouncement ; union secretary says little hope of tliem cominff before Court a<*ain before August. 1938. Sales on 'Change to-dar were: Union Bank. £9 7/: South British. £4 17/6: Kauri. £1 3/: Consolidated Brick. 8/3: Golden Crown. 4/3: Stock. 43-46. £10i 17/6: Renown Collieries pref. (2). 2/6: Australian Glass. £4 ]]/(;. British Tobacco. £2 8/3. £2 8/4*: Broken Hill Proprietary. £2 18/9, £3 1/; Colonial Sugar. £46 17/6. Australasia's greatest value. £5 5/ set of teeth for £2 10/. — E. Da vies. Ltd. (Dentist Da vies! t opp. Woolworths.—Ad.